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This week it’s Japan moving to subsidize the purchase of fuel cell-powered automobiles made by Toyota but hopefully some other players, too, Japan is sharing its earthquake proofing/resistance tech with Bangladesh, and the world's biggest messaging service that no one outside of Asia knows about is investing in America!

Lantis, a Japanese music production company specialising in anime, gaming and voice actors and a Bandai Namco subsidiary, collaborated with a popular anime called Love Live! and made a limited edition high-resolution portable headphone amp called Astell&Kern AK10 Love Live! Edition.

Nagano Street Shots - Special EditionThis week's Street Shots installment celebrates Nagano, our neighbor to the northwest and a lovely city famous for easy access to nature, a 1400 year-old Buddhist temple (yes, one thousand four hundred), and hosting the 1998 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Omron announced the release of their new Neck Massager HM-141. It will be released on July 18 for about 6,000 yen.

Once you turn on the massager, the massaging balls inside start rotating to take the stiffness out of your neck and shoulders. Because there is a heating function in the massaging balls, it's able to give a massage more effectively by warming up your muscles.

It can automatically be turned off 15 minutes after starting a massage.